The mastabas or "bank" were typical of the era tomb Tinita during the First and Second Dynasty. Tombs were rectangular and trapezoidal structure that covered the well and the burial chamber where lay the corpse. The construction was part of a complex which also found a single storey chapel for offerings and a false door on the eastern side which was designed to permit entry and exit of the soul of the pharaoh.
Firstly, the graves were placed outside the area from flooding of the Nile River in the west, as it was believed that the transition into the beyond were located in that direction. The mastaba was initially built of mud bricks, and years later, in stone. The oldest tombs excavated pits were separated into several rooms with brick walls, where the center was reserved for the deceased, and in the other rooms were available the funerary equipment and supplies for the next life. Moreover, in some mass graves were placed outside for those who had been slaves of the master.
In the case of the master, was a two-tier structure: first, in the subway was a burial chamber in which they had access through long vertical wells, and the first level, there was a chapel that simulated a home, where relatives brought gifts, majestically decorated. And thus the years passed, the ornaments revolved around the expansion through various rooms, stairs, traps for robbers, etc.
Egyptian pyramids likely developed as an evolution of the master because, according to scholars, the oldest pyramid was originally a mastaba.
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